Had another fun day in Chiang Mai. We started off by going to a cooking class where we cooked 5 dishes. First we got to pick 3 catergaries with everyone there from either appetisers, noodles, stir fry, soup and dessert. Curry paste and curry were compulsory. We picked appetisers, noodles and annoyingly soup! We then were able to pick from 4 dishes in the catergories what we each wanted to cook, so that was good. First up was noodles. I picked to do fried rice. Mo...

Such a fantastic day! We rode elephants in the forest which was amazing. We were picked up from our hostel and met rowan on the bus. It took about an hour to get there and we were in a little truck which was cool. We had a guide called 'wood' and it was his families elephants we would be riding. We were first taught all the commands that we would need to control the elephants. Yoh kah - lift leg sooong - higher hwa - right sai - left toy - backwards pbai - forwar...

So glad to be out of Bangkok, I disliked it more each day I was there bar the 1st day!! We had a 12 hour overnight bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. Our seats reclined quite far and we were given blankets, it was quite nice. There was also a film on, clearly a pirate copy it wasb in English with English subtitles, and my favourite 'translation' was "open up your ass" for open your ears.. Already love it here the streets are so quite off the main road and there isn'...